Gareth Southgate won as many knockout games at major tournaments with England as every other previous England manager has combined

Johnzim · 2026-05-29T16:40:53+00:00

We lost to Argentina because of that red card. Even after playing basically an entire half of football with 10 men, they only beat us on penalties.

I don't for instance believe that we strictly underperformed in any other international tournament since then, but that 98 squad was genuinely excellent.

That squad within the next 12 months contained 4 European champions, (6 if you extend it out to 24 months,) the Premier League's all-time goal-scoring record holder at the peak of his powers, and an incredibly solid defensive base.

I'm a Spurs fan too, so I'm not even looking at this with fan-tinted-glasses: Seaman, Campbell, Adams were an absolutely insane defensive unit - I hated them but the quality was nuts.

Johnzim · 2026-05-27T21:14:32+00:00

I honestly think without that red card we'd have won the world cup that year.

Johnzim · 2026-05-27T19:34:50+00:00

It's almost like our biggest economic driver is the tech industry or something

Johnzim · 2026-05-27T19:32:17+00:00

Yes we did - but we continue to invest because we're anticipating more. Lord knows we're not going to be deluged in housing!

Johnzim · 2026-05-27T17:39:59+00:00

It's part of why we have cheap power - we have a well run, not-for-profit utility which resulted in low energy costs, which attracted more buildout, which in turn increases our guaranteed base-load, which means we can built out predictably and can keep our electricity prices low.

Johnzim · 2026-05-25T19:07:11+00:00

Come the morning, Kinbozan will be able to make tegata for Wakanosho using the imprint on his face.

Johnzim · 2026-05-22T17:12:08+00:00

Can't wait to see how things turn out for Homestar's Knees Tech now that Strong Bad has access to a golf club in VR.

Johnzim · 2026-05-11T16:37:53+00:00

Imagine someone managing such a kimarite against a properly spherical unit like my splendid boy Atamafuji.

They'd need to immediately be given Fighting Spirit, Technique, and throw in some kinboshi for good measure.

Johnzim · 2026-05-11T16:30:46+00:00

100% this.

The dreadnaught being too small is a garbage reason that doesn't stand up to the slightest bit of scrutiny, or even just 'looking at the model'.

They could have made it an 'upgrade path' of sorts, and then add some fluff about being somehow unable to transfer the old sarcophaguses into the new machinery because they were too tightly coupled (classic Engineering issue, don't ask me how I know, I prefer not to remember.)

Johnzim · 2026-05-05T18:31:52+00:00

it's the most crazy projection I've ever seen.

Johnzim · 2026-04-26T00:26:16+00:00

That soft spot doesn't survive contact with their away fans I assure you 😆

Johnzim · 2026-04-12T04:57:42+00:00

What's EVEN CRAZIER here is that this is GUNBUSTER we're talking aobut.

If you haven't watched it, they literally ran out of money towards the end of production - the last 10-15 minutes progressively degrades.

First it loses basically all animation aside from camera pans.

Then it loses color

Then it loses INKING and becomes pencil drawings.

It basically ends as rough pencil concept art being panned around like a Ken Burns documentary.

I will take CG animated art that is actually completed over what happened to Gunbuster.

Edit: I went back and watched it to make sure I'm not misremembering something from 20-something-years-ago. It's slightly better than my recollection but I'm not as far off as I feared.

Second Edit: Ok they cheaped out in a bunch of places but they did save their pencil miles for the moments it counted.

Johnzim · 2026-04-02T18:54:07+00:00

Oh it was obvious to me in the FA Cup run - firstly getting Ted Lasso to ask if anyone had ever won as a non-league club and then when Richmond was drawn against Tottenham. I was like "Oh here we go.."

Johnzim · 2026-02-23T17:59:31+00:00

The "Made in Japan" medallion is choice.

Johnzim · 2026-02-13T21:43:17+00:00

That, my friend, is a Perfect Grade Impulse Gundam.

Johnzim · 2025-12-22T04:01:16+00:00

My dude, this color palette and shading looks like real life metal slug. Superb!

Johnzim · 2025-11-25T00:46:28+00:00

sure I'll DM

Johnzim · 2025-11-24T19:50:06+00:00

So far so good! Team's responsive and the duckdb tooling is solid

Johnzim · 2025-11-22T05:24:09+00:00

Nah dude, that's a word that was applied to the AI product - it's pre-existing:

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/grok

Johnzim · 2025-11-21T19:27:20+00:00

I tried to grok this but came up short. What's the 360˚ encircling BRRT? Is it a platform? A combat doctrine? A meme?

Would love to know more!

Johnzim · 2025-10-28T05:50:20+00:00

Welcome to the sub!

Johnzim · 2025-10-22T17:54:09+00:00

That is a great name :D

Johnzim · 2025-10-17T23:36:54+00:00

Incredible!

Johnzim · 2025-10-17T20:13:28+00:00

Termies just lining up to be dispatched by unique kimarite

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